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tlaxexelo.

Headword: 
tlaxexelo.
Principal English Translation: 

one who distributes things; or, for example, someone who digs into the earth and turns it over (see Molina; translation here to English by Stephanie Wood)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaxexelo. repartidor de algo, o el que escarua o rebuelue la tierra o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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